A recall does not mean your car is affected. Check the market, build date and VIN with the manufacturer.
- Engine / equipment
- Interior door locking mechanism (child lock): Škoda Octavia III and Rapid
- Period mentioned
- Recall announced in March 2017
- Symptoms
- The child lock may not lock the door properly, so it could open from inside even when the lock is on.
- Possible cause described
- Porsche România, Škoda's importer, notified the Romanian consumer protection authority (ANPC) in March 2017 of a possible fault in the interior door locking mechanism (the child lock) on 707 Rapid and Octavia III cars sold in Romania. The dealer checks the mechanism and replaces it if it does not work properly; it takes about an hour.
- Check for the garage
- With the child lock on, try opening each rear door from inside: it must not open. If it does, do not carry children in the back until it is fixed and ask a Škoda dealer, with the VIN, whether your car was in the recall.
- Cost cited in the source
- No verified estimate; check whether the free recall remedy remains outstanding for the VIN.A rough figure from the original database, not an up-to-date quote.